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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach."

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
Paper

"A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes."

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Rex Reed Film Critic, Author
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"Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed."

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker
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"My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together."

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Francis Ford Coppola Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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"When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?"

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